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<blockquote data-quote="UPS Lifer" data-source="post: 903528" data-attributes="member: 9789">A Silver Lining...Here is a different spin on the situation that really does not come up much...We are actually lucky (at this point in time) that Buck is at the top (I guess that is what you would call it).&nbsp; In 2008, a Democrat was going to get in office. If Hilary became President, she would have rammed through a public option on healthcare and the bill would probably have been air tight. She is a leader and would have had a second term without a doubt.&nbsp; My feeling is that America would be less divided than it is and moderates and independents would have re-elected her with no problem. She would not have cowered to the ubers and made the moves that would have sparked the economy. She would still have been running a divided legislature but we would be moving in a forward direction.Granted, this campaigner in-chief who the ubers call president, has not released his stranglehold on the economy, created a spirit of contempt, division, and disfunction not only with the legislative branch but with the American people. If I compared him to a captain of a ship... He is the guy being pulled in the rowboat shouting commands with a megaphone over the roar of the propellers and his commands being relayed by word of mouth in a long line from one crew member to the next as so on from the stern to the bridge and blaming everyone but himself for why the ship is not turning away from the storm. Here is the silver lining... Buck can be defeated. Common sense independents, liberals realize that he does not have the skills or policies to right our economic wows.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="UPS Lifer, post: 903528, member: 9789"] [b]A Silver Lining...[/b] Here is a different spin on the situation that really does not come up much... We are actually lucky ([B]at this point in time[/B]) that Buck is at the top (I guess that is what you would call it). In 2008, a Democrat was going to get in office. If Hilary became President, she would have rammed through a public option on healthcare and the bill would probably have been air tight. She is a leader and would have had a second term without a doubt. My feeling is that America would be less divided than it is and moderates and independents would have re-elected her with no problem. She would not have cowered to the ubers and made the moves that would have sparked the economy. She would still have been running a divided legislature but we would be moving in a forward direction. Granted, this campaigner in-chief who the ubers call president, has not released his stranglehold on the economy, created a spirit of contempt, division, and disfunction not only with the legislative branch but with the American people. [I][B]If I compared him to a captain of a ship...[/B][/I] He is the guy being pulled in the rowboat shouting commands with a megaphone over the roar of the propellers and his commands being relayed by word of mouth in a long line from one crew member to the next as so on from the stern to the bridge and blaming everyone but himself for why the ship is not turning away from the storm. [B]Here is the silver lining... Buck can be defeated[/B]. Common sense independents, liberals realize that he does not have the skills or policies to right our economic wows. [/QUOTE]

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